Questions tagged [google-drive]
For questions specifically about the now-depreciated computer client for the file synchronization and cloud storage service from Google. This tag should not be used if your question is about Google Backup and Sync or Google Drive File Stream.
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Is there any way make comments on a Google Docs document that only I can see?
I have access to a collaborative Google Docs document on which I would like to make notes in preparation for a meeting (I am not the document owner). I would like to avoid wasting paper, so I would ...
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Can't refresh download link to continue downloading my file from google drive using IDM
I started downloading a 2.2 GB file from google drive using IDM (Internet Download Manager). Now I have downloaded 70% and IDM is saying to refresh the download link. I am unable to refresh the ...
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How can I setup Google Drive for Mac to NEVER delete anything?
I would like to use Google Drive to back files up from my Mac, and I don't want to worry about deletions.
What I would like is for any file I create to be backed up. If I delete it on my PC, I don't ...
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When a Google Sheet is exported to Excel the line heights of wrapped text are not maintained - any way to change this?
Ive got an issue when exporting an Excel file form a Google Drive Sheet.
If i have a large amount of text / data in a cell in Google Sheets i use the wrap text feature so that all the text is ...
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If I have multiple google drive links containing multiple files in each, is there a way to download all at once?
I have tried clicking into each link and manually downloading each file, but I'm looking for a shortcut. And possibly not in .zip?
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What is the meaning of the exclamation point as the icon for Google Colab? [migrated]
The symbol for Google Colab is an orange infinity sign.
However, and for the first time, upon starting a new document today, the icon had changed to an exclamation point:
What is the meaning of this ...
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Move google drive backuped folders to new computer
I have google drive synced folders that appear under the "Computers" section on google drive. Now I would like to move this data to a new laptop but without deleting it on the old one!
The ...
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Google Drive search field does not appear for Outlook guest users
I need to share a Google Drive directory with some users whose domains are in Outlook. However, the Drive search field does not appear for these users. In image 1 is how Drive appears to these users:
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Cannot open files with Emacs after mounting Google Drive on Ubuntu using ocamlfuse
I have installed a FUSE filesystem for Google Drive so that I can mount my Drive on Ubuntu. It's something I have done before on other machines with no problem.
Everything is installed and mounted ...
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Sync files with different google drive account on chromebook
I have got many files locally (which are in my downloads folder) on my Chromebook. But, how do I sync those files to a google drive account other than the currently logged in account?
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How Can I Rename Google Drive for Desktop Volumes?
I am using version 51 of Google Drive for Desktop. It has four accounts added to it. Each account is mounted to MacOS (Mojave) as a volume. Each volume has an irritatingly long name like: accountname@...
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Transfer 90 GB of photos between two Google Drives which are both personal
How do I transfer files between two Google Drives, both personal? By personal I mean that neither is a work or school account.
The reason
My wife and I used to both be on the 100 GB plan. We’ve run ...
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Google Drive duplicated a file tens of thousands of times and now stuck syncing
my google drive app starting bogging down and my files weren't syncing from the desktop app to the online google drive. Now my app is stuck syncing 17,000 files (that I didn't create or duplicate). ...
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How to remove "Google Docs", "Google Sheets" and "Google Slides" from windows explorer "New" menu?
I recently installed Google Drive on my Windows 8 laptop. After installing this disk, 3 items appeared in the "New" menu item in the explorer. Each of the new items leads to a browser with ...
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downloading multiple files from google drive in one go
I want to download multiple files from google drive please see the following link
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByWO0aO1eI_MN1BEd3VNRUZENkU?fbclid=...
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Is it possible to transfer a folder from one Google Drive account to another?
Not the entire account, just a folder, including all files and sub-folders and their files (recursively).
And not transferring a folder from one folder from another, transfer the folder from one ...
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Google Drive on macOS claims it is syncing but not actually downloading
I am having an issue with the Google Drive desktop app on my MacBook Air M1 24GB laptop (with macOS Sonoma). When I save certain files to Google Drive it syncs the files but there is a little cloud ...
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Google Drive system tray icon gone
I have (had) Google Drive installed on a Windows 7 laptop.
Normally Drive starts during logon, and the system tray icon appears.
However, now the system tray icon never appears.
Google Drive is set ...
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Google document cloud sync on macOS
I recently upgraded my computer and such Apps as were compatible with an M2 all moved across without any issues. MacBook Air M2 Sonoma 14.3 (23D56)
In a bit of housekeeping I removed my access to some ...
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Google Drive quit command executable
Just finished setting up task scheduler(win10) to boot up Google Drive off hours to avoid resource drag specifically when syncing third party backup images.
All's good with the backup app scheduler ...
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Google Drive - how to retain files but reinstall Drive?
I have reinstalled Windows and I have a lot of data on Google Drive (~60 gb). I have backed up the contents of my Drive folder and put them in the same location on my hard disk after reinstalling ...
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Downloading the google drive backups from the Backups folder
In my google drive I have a folder called Backups. In the Backups folder I have 2 backups. How do I go about downloading these 2 files onto a local backup external drive so I can delete the backups ...
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Google-drive is not downloading all the folders and all the files in each folder
I have formatted my hard drive C recently, while formatting only Drive C, mistakenly all the drives were merged i.e I lost all the saved data.
I downloaded my data from google drive but for some ...
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Google Drive inside TrueCrypt folder
I want my Google Drive files to be locally stored in an encrypted way with TrueCrypt. There are two ways of doing this: put an encrypted folder inside your GDrive-folder, or put your GDrive-folder ...
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Can't reinstall Google Drive App on Windows 11
I'm on a Windows 11 Machine. Recently there was some sort of update and after that update some of the file connections to my Google Drive Desktop app installation seem to have broken. I couldn't ...
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How can I download large files from Google Drive?
I uploaded a file on Google Drive, which is 1.3 GB in size.
Now when I try to download it through the browser (Firefox), it only downloads 1 GB,
and then downloading fails.
I tried to copy the ...
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Avoid syncing of Microsoft Office temporary files in Google Backup and Sync for pc
Is there a way to avoid syncing of Microsoft Office temporary files with names starting with "~$" in the new Google Backup and Sync client for pc? I have tried this new client, but it seems this old ...
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Create Windows 10 System Image and Save to Google Drive
I want to make a full system image of my hard drive once a month, preferably using Windows 10's own system image creation tool (but I'll use any tool). Since I have unlimited Google Drive storage from ...
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Computer folders backing up images/videos to Google Photos and those images/videos on Google Photos are not talking to each other
If I have a file on my computer, like .txt document, in a folder backed to Google Drive (via the Google Drive app on my computer) and I edit this document using a text editor on my phone, the changes ...
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Hyperlinks cannot be opened in Google drive documents in Google Chrome
I am trying to open a hyperlink in a pdf file located in google drive (My browser is Google Chrome) but for some reason it does not allow me to open it. But If I try to open in an incognito window I ...
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How can I download a folder from Google Drive in Linux?
How can I download a directory from Google Drive to Ubuntu 20.04 with wget?
I searched and have not found a solution that works for me.
I tested this command:
wget --no-check-certificate
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Boxcryptor stopped working, how do I access the encrypted files on OnDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive?
I have been using Boxcryptor for client side encryption of files stored in the cloud for a few years now.
They have been bought up by dropbox and the software stopped working today.
How do I access my ...
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How to download files to Google Drive directly using Dolphin?
I recently installed Fedora 38 (KDE) and add my google account. I also installed kio-gdrive. Now I can see a Google Drive folder under Network folder. And there is another folder named google1 for my ...
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Is there a way to access a google drive folder if i have a link to one file in it?
I accidentally copied the wrong link to very important folder. I copied a link to one of the files instead of the whole folder. Is there a way to get the link to whole folder if the only thing i have ...
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"volume doesn’t implement mount" for `gio mount`
In Ubuntu 22.04, when I do gio mount google-drive://<my email> I get "volume doesn’t implement mount".
I used the Online Accounts Settings dialog to log into my account, I have gvfs, ...
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Google Accounts glitched somehow
I have been trying to download an archive that I had uploaded to my Google Drive from Facebook. When I try to download the folders, though, it says it's preparing a zip and then it never downloads. ...
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How to Disconnect a google drive account that is no longer available?
Earlier my google drive was synced to my work address.
Then after I left (and the email was recycled to someone else), I wanted to switch accounts but couldn't.
How does one go about changing your ...
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Map Google Drive to drive letter
Google Drive has recently updated the desktop file sync client from the old Backup and Sync to a new system. With the old program, I used net use at the Windows Command Prompt, e.g. net use r: "\...
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Rclone copy only if files are "fresh"
I run a simple script to perform an rclone copy to Google Drive of a RAMDisk each day, giving it the naming format of YYYYMMDD_name. This works great, but is a bit wasteful because I don't actually ...
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Access to Google Drive
I have my Google Drive set up on my organization's laptop. Does my company have access to or the ability to view the files I have on my Google Drive?
If yes, how can I keep it on my laptop and yet ...
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Disable mirroring for Google Drive Desktop but still allow syncing specific folders?
We have a Google Enterprise account. Our Google Admins have disabled Mirror files option because if every use enabled it, it would take up everyone's laptop storage space and we do not want that.
But ...
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Cannot upload any folders to Google Drive
I'm trying to upload a folder to Google Drive (running Ubuntu 20.04).
I select New > Folder Upload and select the folder. The upload immediately fails with the error file not found:
It's strange ...
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Error accessing Google Drive in open wifi
I'm trying to use Google Drive (https://drive.google.com) but safari keep saying:
"Safari can't open the page https://drive.google.com because Safari
can't establish a secure connection to the ...
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How can I read / write Alternate Data Streams on a Google Drive (on Windows)?
I have a windows box with Google Drive set up to stream files to local G: (default behaviour).
When I download files from the internet and save them to my local Google Drive, they have the usual ...
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Map network drive for Google Drive to appears as a normal drive in Windows Explorer
Is it possible to "map network drive" for Google Drive so it appears as a usual Windows drive in Explorer?
(And on a Mac and Linux?)
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This is now built in to the Google Drive ...
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Bulk download files from Google Drive from url list
I have a list of 100 urls that link to files on google drive that I want to download. Each url is like this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8asdfasdfasd4YXc/view?usp=sharing
How can I download ...
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Save files from internet directly to Google Drive
I need to upload a lot of video files to Google drive. The file sizes will range between 50-150 MB.
Because of my slow upload speed, downloading them to my computer then uploading them to Google Drive ...
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How to remove the mounted Google drive in local PC
I have a question about new Google drive for PC
The other day, I installed new google drive for PC in my PC.
Then, the Google drive were connected on the PC as a new drive.
I only need folders for ...
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How to sync specific folders in Google Drive for Desktop?
Please note:
I am not talking about Google's deprecated "Backup and Sync" application nor "Google Drive File Stream". This question pertains to Google's new Drive for Desktop.
How ...
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Is there a way to prevent users from using Shared Drives instead of Shared Folders for project files?
Our organization is using Google Drive as its main file repository. I'm facing a constant struggle as users share folders in their "My Drive" space and start using said folders as shared ...
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